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- Summary: Using material from 1975 to 1993 Bartos created 12 new songs, the latest solo release for the former Kraftwerk member was conceived after techno label Bureau B inquired about archival material he might want to release.
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- Record Label: Bureau B
- Genre(s): Electronic, Club/Dance, Electro, Neo-Electro
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Positive: 6 out of 14
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Mixed: 8 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Jun 4, 2013Clearly, Bartos carries the romance and self-aware humour of the “classic” Kraftwerk in his genetic code: the sweet, buoyant, dignified and melodious Nachtfahrt and Hausmusik, for example, breathe the same rarefied European air which rendered The Man Machine and Trans-Europe Express such heady and immaculate touchstones.
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The WireApr 5, 2013Off The Record's off the cuff feel would probably appall his former comrades but it lends the music an appealing immediacy. [Mar 2013, p.48]
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Apr 9, 2013The past, present and future collide in a sublime celebration of technology, history and humanity, in all its flawed and triumphant glory, filtered through one man's attempts to understand and explain his small but significant place in the interconnected, universal whole.
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Mar 18, 2013It’s a mixed manifestation of electronic pop.
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Q MagazineApr 10, 2013His revisiting of old tapes and melodic ideas from his tenure mean it echoes his former group's discography in rewarding ways. [May 2013, p.95]
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Mar 21, 2013Overall, Off the Record is a solid album with plenty of attributes, though not necessarily an exceptional one.
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Mar 18, 2013Off the Record is of more interest as a historical document than for the music itself--something Bartos would probably admit.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Nov 28, 2015
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